Does the pattern of atrophy of the corpus callosum differ between patients with frontotemporal dementia and patients with Alzheimer's disease?

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 44-49

  Hensel, A ^b   Ibach, B ^a   Muller, U ^b   Kruggel, F ^c   Kiefer, M ^b   Gertz, H J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Corpus callosum; Frontotemporal dementia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLUMETRY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 3042554202     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000077734     Document Type: Article

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